Our Trip to California

I'm feeling quite guilty that I haven't posted pics from our trip to CA but honestly, blogger is a pain to upload pictures to so I've been avoiding it, but I really should start to recap our trip.

We had a really wonderful time. We flew in on Tuesday the 26th of August. We had a 7am flight out of JFK so we had to be up and out of our house 4:30am. At the time, it was very painful getting the girls up and in the car but looking back, it wasn't so bad and it was nice arriving in CA at 10:30 am local time and having the whole day to do things.

Wednesday the 27th was Tissie's 90th birthday, so we headed over with the girl and chinese food for a little dinner celebration.

Tissie, a slippery Sofia, and Alexis

Our fancy dining arrangements in Tissie's room-hey, it worked and the girls were in heaven being with their GG and Gaga so that's all that mattered!

Singing Happy Birthday to Tissie

On Thursday Ricardo and I left Ella with Gaga (my mom) and Sofia with Abuela and Papa (his parents) and headed up to Napa for the night in my mom's Prius. Driving in the Prius was fun/funny. It's really cool since it doesn't have an ignition or an actual stick shift plus the steering wheel is so small if felt like we were driving go-cart. But it was certainly nice getting 45 mpg!

It was especially nice having two full days and one night as just a couple. We haven't had a night without a kid since before Ella was born (almost 3 years for those who are counting). Of course we feel fast asleep by 10:30 pm and at 7:30 am the next day we couldn't sleep any longer. I was really looking forward to sleeping in but not being woken up throughout the night really makes for restful sleep so 7:30 am it was.

Our first stop was Frog's Leap Winery . Love, love, love Frog's Leap. Not just because the wine is amazing but so is the tour, the people and their principles. We could have spent all day there and in fact we spent 3+ hours there.





We then went to Rutherford Hill (great wine, boring winery) and another favorite, Cakebread. That night we went to Go Fish in St. Helena for dinner. Yummy sushi!

The next day we went to PlumpJack Winery which is co-owned by Gavin Newsom (mayor of SF) and Artesa (awesome winery not so awesome wine) and then headed home.

PlumpJack

Artesa Winery

to be continued...